[Wylug-discuss] List Etiquette: Top Posting vs. Bottom Posting

[Mark P. Conmy]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, David Holden wrote:
>
> Hello Mark,
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not against this debate, this was just my
> contribution to it.
>
> With regard to snipping, for me email is a method for *busy* people to
> rapidly communicate. If someone posts with a problem and I have an
> answer I will fire off the reply often in seconds. If the lists turns
> into one where I'm continually having to watch my P's and Q's for fear
> of top/bottom posting reprimand I won't reply.

Which is why I'm seriously considering dropping out of this list as a
result of the past few posts.

If people are busy, they should appreciate that _others_ are also busy,
so making their questions/points/whatever as easily accessible should be
a priority.  Unless they think their time is more valuable and important
than the poor reader...

> These day more and more people are coming to linux from a non
> technical background, e.g. Windows users, the last thing I would want
> is for them to go away telling others how they tried linux but those
> linux guy's are more interested in "how" you format you emails..
>
> Seriously there are more important things..

For someone who gets (probably) >100 significant emails a day, being
able to deal with them quickly (reply or discard) is important.

If people don't want to take the time to correspond, I'm not going to be
a fascist about it though, I'll just ignore it.

I _will_ get upset if a debate is opened and I get flamed for raising
reasonable points that just grate with them.  My life's too short for
that...

Mark